I wouldn’t say I ever ‘tried’ to become anorexic. Upon realising that I was, I found the pull of a casual stroll through various ‘pro-ana’ blogs irresistible, but aside from a renewed urge to be the best anorexic ever, I found the content rather distasteful. Anorexia is an incredibly competitive disease and engaging with other … Continue reading Anorexia and the Sublime
[A television is on broadcasting the six o’clock news. LUCE watches avidly, making notes. EMILY is reading the play ‘Much Ado About Nothing’.] LUCE: God, I can’t believe this… EMILY: The world’s a messed up place. LUCE: You’ve got that right… an Australian teen joining ISIS. Where are his parents? EMILY: Mmm. [Enter SASHA. She … Continue reading Much Ado About…
Introduction I wanted to use this piece to explore my experience of being an outsider in Australia and look at how a false sense of isolation from world issues can prevent a person from perceiving the real-life issues around them. I used Mags to represent an extremely America-centric view, and Mira to represent a more … Continue reading The Head
It’s 2 pm in the afternoon, between classes, and most of us are forking the previous night’s leftovers into our mouths while we wait for the last stragglers to arrive. We are sitting around two tables haphazardly pulled together in a dim, dusty room filled with odd bits of furniture. Some magazines and books line … Continue reading A Publishing Revolution
Like many twenty-somethings with a Bachelor of Arts and nothing else up my sleeve, I work with customers. My job at the cinema is straightforward—sell tickets, serve popcorn, make sure all the movies play on time. As a manager, I also check everyone is doing what they need to, but most of the time everything … Continue reading How Joan Didion Helped Me Grieve a Stranger
Millennials are often characterised as a generation that can’t be bothered to get off their digital devices to read. But recent Pew Consumer reports indicate they might instead be the generation that reads the most—it just so happens that they read through their digital devices. Fiction and storytelling occupy a place of incredible importance to … Continue reading Always on Those Books: Millennial Taste in Fiction
It’s already a bit of a curse going on a date with a publishing student. I’ve judged how grammatically correct your messages are, and now I might be writing about you. It sounds like a Taylor Swift song—it’s okay, I’m not writing this to take a stab at anyone—but, 'Look What You Made Me Do.' … Continue reading This is why we can’t have nice things: Adventures in Tinderland
A cacophony. The squeak of the trollies, the tantrums of the children, the slam of the register, the drone of ‘Hi, how are you today?’, the boop-boop of the scanner, the rustle of…wait— ‘Where are the bags?’ It’s Tracy, Bill, Janet, Craig, Sharon. They’re holding their bananas. There’s a crease in the space between their … Continue reading Confessions of a Checkout-Chick
Far out in the ocean, where the water is blue as spidering veins, it is deep. So very deep, indeed, that no skyscraper could fathom the vast space from the glittering surface waters to the mysterious ocean’s floor, that no array of steel and windows could compare to the flawless gradient of periwinkle, azure, cobalt … Continue reading The Deep
Note: The events of this piece are entirely true, but names have been changed. It’s the tail-end of the wedding. The bride and groom have already left for their honeymoon, driven away in a low, black BMW that took two wrong turns getting out of the venue. For the staff, things should be getting easier … Continue reading Cheers for that, Macca: It’s just part of the job, right?
